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<h1 align="center"><em><font color="#000066">Creating Backups</font></em></h1>
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<p><font color="#000000">As a helper's database continues to grow, there will 
  be a need to create backups of the entire database. One way of creating such 
  a backup would be to copy and paste the database to a folder and (if needed), 
  rename accordingly. The Malware Helper Workflow Tool has an in-built backup 
  utility that can take care of this backup.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000000">The backup utility does the following: </font></p>
<ol type="1"><li>Ask the helper whether or not they would like to allocate a special folder 
    to create the backups</li><li>if yes, then a folder will need to be allocated, if not, the current working 
    directly will be used</li><li>Because the Malware Helper Workflow Tool uses its own naming system for 
    the backups, the folder will be searched for pre-existing backups, and the 
    new backup will be named accordingly.</li></ol>
<p><img src="../../Images/Backup.jpg" alt="Creating Backup Message" width="411" height="197"></p>
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<p>The backups are given the file name: <strong>xxx Data DD-MM-YYYY.db.bak</strong></p>
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    <td width="25%" height="21">xxx</td>
    <td width="75%">A triple digit number from 1 to 999, used for sorting backups 
      (through Windows) in chronological order</td>
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    <td>DD</td>
    <td>Double digit day of the month the backup was created</td>
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    <td>MM</td>
    <td>Double digit month of the year the backup was created</td>
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    <td>YYYY</td>
    <td>Quadruple digit year the backup was created</td>
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<p>Note that misnumbering of the triple digit (xxx) may cause the newly created 
  backup to be mislabeled, and may cause an error in backing up the file.</p>
<p>If all labelling slots (1 through to 999) are reached, then the following error 
  message appears:</p>
<p><img src="../../Images/BackupError.jpg" alt="Backup Error Message" width="480" height="150"></p>
<p>As explained in the warning, the naming system has now been changed to <strong>Data 
  DD-MM-YYYY.db.bak </strong>(the triple digit labelling slot has been dropped).</p>
<p>To restore the backup, rename the backup in question to <strong>Data.db</strong> 
  and replace it with the existing data.db file. Note that if no data.db file 
  exists, the backup can still be used to 'save' your settings, speeches, and 
  topics. If done right, no <a href="../../Overview.htm">startup error message</a> 
  should appear. Make sure the Malware Helper Workflow Tool is not running when 
  the backup is being restored.</p>
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